Jennifer Hellrung

Experience

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  3M

  Jun 1998 - May 2007

  •Acted as quality coach, trainer and facilitator, quality systems expert, and quality auditor and member of the RF business team for the global RF business.•Provided coaching and consulting to the RF team including the other BT members, the lab and manufacturing engineers, the technical service group, and plant engineers in the US and OUS.•Developed and gave training to the product and process engineering groups on product and process engineering excellence.•Implemented control charting of critical variables in the San Luis Potosi and Ames lines.•Led supplier green belt project to improve the primary raw material for the EBL product including team members from US and OUS plant sites as well as several supplier sites. Show less •Led multifunctional team from development through scale-up of a new product.•Led several successful green belt projects to completion.•Initiated new measurements of defects as part of a small quality improvement team enabling the reduction of this defect by more than 50 percent.•Applied problem solving skills and data analysis to solve quality problems.•Researched options for new online gauging implemented and validated camera imaging system for defect detection on manufacturing line.•Designed, conducted and analyzed various experiments on pilot line and manufacturing line for process improvements and line speed increases.•Implemented statistical process control on key process and product variables which enabled the detection of poor quality material.•Taught classes open to all 3M employees on designed experiments, statistical thinking and variation and six sigma.•Consulted to division employees on problems concerning customer complaints, supplier management, SPC, DOE, FMEA, process data analysis, setting internal and external specifications, etc.•Visited customer plants for problem solving sessions.•Implemented a quality system for a new line in the San Luis Potosi plant including quality and process data collection, control charting, CoA generation.•Led two green belt projects. Show less

  • Six Sigma Coach

    Nov 2004 - May 2007

  • Manufacturing Engineer

    Nov 2001 - Oct 2004

  • Quality Engineer

    Jun 1998 - Oct 2001
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  Boston Scientific

  May 2007 - Feb 2010

  Principal Statistician

  •Teach classes worldwide on both statistical sampling plans and normality assessment to hundreds of employees across all CRM division sites.•Provide statistical consulting to operations, R&D, supplier quality and supplier development engineers.•Mentor Six Sigma DMAIC projects.•Led Six Sigma project to address FDA finding on Non-conforming material process to simplify and standardize the hundreds of procedures relating to the process.•Led project to provide consistent application of outlier detection. Show less

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  3M

  Mar 2010 - now

  Implementing SCADA on production lines with a fantastic team.Leading all manufacturing processes for a product portfolio. Led many projects to improve quality or lower cost.Led a large project to solve a customer problem that led to additional sales.

  • Manufacturing Engineer

    Jun 2012 - now

  • Product/Quality Engineer

    Mar 2010 - Jun 2012